Joel Iskowitz

Joel Iskowitz has created artwork for three decades that has graced the covers of books, periodicals, journals, public spaces, coins and postage stamps worldwide. He is also an active United States Air Force (USAF) artist and has a number of oils in the USAF permanent collection. Mr. Iskowitz has been invited twice to document Space Shuttle missions and his artwork is on permanent display at the NASA Kennedy Space Center Museum. Mr. Iskowitz's work has been featured in many international journals; including profiles of his numismatic and philatelic art in CoinAGE Magazine; Watercolor Magazine American Artist Magazine , Smithsonian Profiles; and his murals have been featured in Exhibit Builder Magazine. He has been awarded both bronze and silver medals for his corporate illustrations and grand-scale public art in Portfolios.com international competitions Most recently his design for the American Numismatic Association’s Presidential Award won the 2008 silver medal in corporate illustration in the International Creative Shake competition. His design for the District of Columbia quarter dollar reverse was displayed at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and his design for the reverse of the “Illinois” 2009 Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Cent is displayed in the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Museum. His painting documenting the events of the D-day invasion is represented with artists proofs lithos in the permanent collection of the Historical Society of Caranten,Brévands and the Mairie of Merville,France. A recently completed mural which chronicles the history of aviation technology has been installed at the entry to the Department of the Air Force in the Pentagon with a full scale gliceé on display at Wright –Patterson AFB. Mr. Iskowitz has also received the National Oceanic and Philatellic Society citation for his contributions to Space Philately.painting'Directorates of His 2010 Design for the Women Airforce Service Pilots Congressional Gold Medal will be permantly displayed at the Smithsonian Museum.His Platinum coin design 'The Legislative Muse' was the 2009 candidate for most Artistic coin design for the Coin of the Year Awards.His Medal Of Honor Commemorative $5 gold reverse will be released in the United States 2011.He continues to present his artwork in illustrated lectures at universities and professional organizations,including the Fashion Institute of Technology,Syacuse University, Fordham University,The Society of Illustrators,The Type directors Club, the American Numismatic Association and the New York Numismatic Club.
In may of 2011 he was inducted into the Hunter College Hall of Fame.


UNITED STATES MINT Design Credits
2011 American Platinum Eagle Coin Reverse
2011 Army Gold Commemorative Coin obverse
2011 Gettysburg National military Park quarter reverse
2011 The Medal of Honor Commemorative Gold Coin (reverse)
2010 WASP Congressional Gold Medal obverse)
2010 Mary Lincoln First Spouse Gold Coin reverse
2009 Lincoln Bicentennial Cent reverse,(3rd aspect)
20102009 First Spouse Julia Tyler reverse
2009 First Spouse Julia Tyler obverse
2009 District of Columbia Quarter reverse
2009 Louis Braille Commemorative Silver obverse
2008 American Eagle Platinum reverse (Judicial Branch)
2008 Arizona State Quarter Dollar reverse
2008 Presidential $1 Andrew Jackson obverse
2008 Presidential $1 Martin Van Buren obverse
2008 First Spouse Elizabeth Monroe obverse
2008 Bald Eagle Commemorative silver obverse
2008 Arizona Quarter reverse 2007 First Spouse Dolley Madison reverse
2007 Presidential $1 John Adams obverse
2007 Presidential $1 James Madison obverse
2006 American Eagle Platinum (Legislative Branch) reverse

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